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Messages - KarenH
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« on: October 06, 2024, 09:23 »
I love Adobe. You wait for over three months to have a batch rejection because none of you work meets their quality standards but the very same images have been accepted and are selling on other sites. It's frustrating to say the least.
And even worse, you wait months, they get rejected in batch. They look fine and are selling well on other sites, so you resubmit them, wait another couple months , and the same images that were rejected are now accepted. Something is very broken over there. They're not worth it for me anymore.
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« on: August 04, 2024, 00:02 »
I don't understand it either. My accrued earnings absolutely reset to 0 on the 1st of the month. There is no payment shown as having been processed, which I would expect, but there's nothing showing it's in process either. I tried to email help , but help is now from other Shutterstock contributors, not Shutterstock employees, and all they could do was just paste the info below. Starting this month, we are modifying our payment calculation timing, but this will not affect when you receive your royalty payment from Shutterstock. In line with our continuous efforts to improve the quality and accuracy of this process, instead of resetting accrued earnings at midnight on the 1st of each calendar month we will be doing so at midnight on the 3rd. Here is a summary of how these changes will impact you:
For those who meet the minimum payout threshold, unpaid earnings wont reset at midnight on the 1st but instead will reset at midnight on the 3rd of the month.
Only the amounts that accumulated up to the end of the prior month will be paid out (minus any applicable tax withholdings).
In the first 48 hours of a new month, the unpaid earnings will reflect the amount that is to be paid out, plus any earnings accrued in that 48 hour period before Shutterstock processes payout calculations.
Once calculations are kicked off on the 3rd of each month, accrued earnings will be reset to 0 (or to the amount that has accumulated in the first 48 hours).
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« on: February 01, 2024, 10:51 »
I dont care. I just track all my income and report it.
Same here been doing this way since 2010. I only report income that has been paid to me.
The number on their 1099 never matches what I show, even though it's taken from their own monthly earnings summary; and I don't have a lot of downloads, so there shouldn't be a 14% difference. But my tax prep guy said that if I report mine and it doesn't match theirs, I could get questioned about it down the line.
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« on: January 31, 2024, 17:33 »
I got the link today, but the form won't download.
Same
Same! I think they put this out there knowing that there was nothing to download. Two days ago, they said by January 31. This morning's email said in March. Later today they said between now and March 1. And the initial explanation was that they couldn't generate the download link. The very last email from them today said "check again tomorrow." I suspect they made this page and send the notice in order to cover themselves and show that they tried to get them out by January 31 as required, but knowing that the downloads wouldn't show up, so they could blame it on a systems glitch. (And their contact link still doesn't work).
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« on: January 31, 2024, 11:25 »
FYI - seems US 1099s are going to be late.
I got an email from Shutterstock two days ago saying that the link to download 1099s would be available on January 31. Today (January 31) with no link, I emailed them again. Now they tell me that, because of the "generation of the format of the download link", it will be sometime in March. I'm annoyed at in "fixing" the site, the contact link doesn't work, and now in only two days, they have broken the download link.
Per my tax preparer, who is also an IRS agent, their deadline for 1099 filing is today.
ETA last email from Shutterstock, which is the third in three days, now says it will be sometime between January 1 and March 1. Still a month past the due date.
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« on: September 06, 2019, 12:27 »
Hey guys
I dropped Alamy about three years ago, after I've been on the platform for maybe 2-3 years - without any sales. I remember the upload process and all the keywording etc to be such a hassle, that I just gave up on it.
I'm now doing a little research to see what other photographers do with their stock portfolio, and how they "make things happen". Many are talking about Alamy as a good source of income.
Has the upload process changed at Alamy, are you guys selling anything, is it worth it to create a new profile and try again? Please let me have your input.
I tried Alamy for a short time, less than a year, albeit with a very small portfolio as kind of a test. Literally no action, not a one, so I dropped it. Six months after closing the account, I got a $150 d/l. I questioned it, but they said there can be a delay in payment. So I reopened it.  I don't find their upload process terribly tedious. I was able to upload in bulk, but then of course, have to tag a lot of things that I didn't include metadata for to start with. I'm not into stock very much anymore due to personal circumstances, admittedly I'm not putting much work into it anymore, but I'm fine with getting a surprise payment now and then.
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« on: April 13, 2017, 22:26 »
i) Your images will be removed from sale on our website within the time period specified in your contract
ii) Getty Images / iStock and Distributors will have the right to renew licenses per the terms of your Agreement
So they can sell but you will not get any profits ?
How i can see if any of my images its still there ?
I dont like it at all
You can request an "Open License Report" from them through the ESP site. However, they send you a link to download it, which you can't get to if they've already closed your account . . . so kind of a moot point, but if you have no open licenses that would fall under this, they will tell you in addition to giving you the useless link.
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« on: April 02, 2017, 19:27 »
Rob got it too. 
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« on: April 02, 2017, 09:45 »
Basically, Donald Gruener's position was determined by Getty to be no longer needed and he's gone as of March 31.
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« on: April 01, 2017, 22:16 »
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« on: February 20, 2017, 20:13 »
Gone.
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« on: February 20, 2017, 20:12 »
When I go to the Royalties tab, then the Export tab and download the "iStock Historical Royalties" file all the past earnings stated there for each month are wrong when compared to this info http://www.istockphoto.com/user_stats.php?Offset=0&DownloadsGraphFileType and what I actually got paid. Anyone else have slightly different numbers there? And I dont mean just December, but all the months.
Yes, mine are different, not by a large $ amount, but by a huge %age.
I have very little confidence in their ability to report things properly and zero confidence of them to do it in a timely manner. I don't have much confidence of them to get it correct either.
Based on the fact that in addition to not being able to report correctly or on time or at all, there's also an issue with images appearing and mysteriously disappearing after acceptance -- and a few people reporting that other people's images are in their portfolio. I have ZERO confidence in their ability to report properly. How can they, if images aren't even in the right portfolios?
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« on: August 31, 2016, 12:28 »
How do contributors to these sites Pexel & Pixabay make money? I can tell that the sites themselves are making money from ads and donations but it seems as though the photographers are just giving their stuff away!
The contributors make nothing, users of the images don't even have to give attribution. But there is at least one RedBubble seller who is selling merchandise from these free pictures, and apparently that's okay, with both the free image sites and with RedBubble.
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« on: June 30, 2016, 14:34 »
I'm banned from SS forums. Can someone go poke their head in and see if admins are chiming in and repost back here?
There are four threads going on in there on this topic, but so far no admins have chimed in.
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« on: June 30, 2016, 14:30 »
Wow -- images being deleted because of this now too. (per three reports so far in the contributors forum)
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« on: June 30, 2016, 13:55 »
Looks like a lot of people got that. I went back and double-checked, because I'm very careful of keywording. My keywords have been replaced in many cases with words from the title or description, and now include all single-word keywords, including "the", "on", "of", "with". Maybe they're going to one-word keywords like Dreamstime uses?
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« on: May 27, 2016, 21:00 »
Someone just posted in the FB group that if you go to the stuck file, click edit, and save, it unlocks. Tried it and it worked.
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« on: May 27, 2016, 10:28 »
Non-exclusive, and it's running a consistent 3 weeks for me - and then of course however much time it spends in "this file is publishing" post-inspection, which is going on several days.
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« on: July 08, 2015, 15:45 »
I saw this a couple days ago. I no longer have an account at iStock, but would sometimes peek back at the forums. As of two days ago, I could no longer see the forums.
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« on: May 19, 2015, 11:46 »
I appreciate the response Mat, and your checking into it. I have to say though that I'm really disappointed with the other people at Fotolia for not knowing this (or not thinking it important enough to look into) when it was first reported a week ago. Thanks for the info!
One other question though, the original person at Fotolia that was asked about this said that an extended license was required to be purchased to sell such derivative works. Does the fact that they have an api key change anything about this requirement?
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« on: May 19, 2015, 08:47 »
They had one of mine on their site literally the day after it was accepted by Fotolia. If you find one of your images, then down on the lower right side of the page there is a tab marked "Author Portfolio" where they show other images. However, I've found a whole lot more than what is in that tab, and it does seem like they have the entire portfolio.
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« on: May 18, 2015, 09:55 »
Fotolia responded and wrote "they are nor resellers of Fotolia, it seems they are selling derivative products such as canvas and wall stickers with those images. Note that in order to do so, they need to purchase the files with an Extended RF license." Then they asked me to send a DMCA complaint notice to them (Fotolia).
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« on: May 18, 2015, 09:07 »
I noticed this site offering derivative products from Fotolia images -- looks like they scraped the whole site, because all of the images have Fotolia watermarks. Fotolia says they're not a partner site, and that in order to sell these, they would need to buy an extended license, which they haven't on any of mine (nor for two other Fotolia people I checked with whose images are here also). Fotolia has been notified (the only guy that deals with this was out of the office for the week), and the website company hasn't responded to two emails.
Does anyone here know anything about this site?
vimagio.com -- enter any keyword to search
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« on: March 10, 2014, 16:39 »
Not just PP, happens with deactivated files at GI also.
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« on: March 05, 2014, 21:08 »
I did apparently.
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